US Military Ship Fires 30 Warning Shots After Encounter With Iranian Vessels

US Military Ship Fires 30 Warning Shots After Encounter With Iranian Vessels
The USS Monterey military vessel is seen docked in the Black Sea harbor of Constanta, 250 km (155 miles) east of Bucharest, on June 7, 2011. Bogdan Cristel/Reuters
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WASHINGTON—A U.S. Coast Guard ship fired about 30 warning shots after 13 vessels from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) came close to it and other American Navy vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, the Pentagon said on Monday.

This is the second time within the last month that U.S. military vessels have had to fire warning shots because of what they said was unsafe behavior by Iranian vessels in the region, after a relative lull in such interactions over the past year.